A good case can be made that in the present political environment, centrism is more likely to be promoted by a Democratic party that uses every parliamentary tool in the books to oppose Republican initiatives until they are moderated, then by Democrats who when pronouncing a plague on extremists in both parties, make no actual contribution to diffusing the extremist policies of the right. continue reading ...

As for the 1960s protesters, they have had to cool their rancors to remain on the national scene, and sidle toward "centrism" -- a centrism shaped more by my libertarian and conservative mentors than by their Saul Alinskys and Herbert Marcuses.

Lincoln, accused by the right for being too liberal for Arkansas, has been under attack as well by the left, and labor unions, for her "centrism" - specifically, her refusal to support a public option during the health care battle and her opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act ( "card check").

If you want your message to have an impact, it should be either put in front of the wingnuts themselves, or discussed at a site in which criticizing Obama’s centrism is consistent with the overall slant.